“What do you want to know?” she asked.
“What do my uncle and brothers hope to achieve by using you?”
“This is going to sound crazy, believe me. They think I’m your real soul mate. That your true feelings weren’t strong enough for Sarah. I’m the real deal. They believe they could use me to bring you back home.”
Chapter Five
“You bring me home?”
“Look, I didn’t make the plan, okay? I was just the one they used to execute it. It’s not a big deal. Besides, they weren’t wrong, were they? You’re here and I have no idea where here is.”
He watched her.
His cock was already rock-hard for her and he wanted to tear her clothes off. He’d never felt this overwhelming sensation with anyone before.
She started to wriggle. “Let me go. Please.”
“No. There’s nothing I can do.”
“You’re going to lock me up here, seriously?”
“I’m going to do what I need to do.”
“Ugh!” She screamed. “What is it with you and your fucked-up family? Why did he have to come to the restaurant where I was serving? I finally had a life, had my shit together, and you have to come along and ruin it.”
She kept on screaming but he needed some air, some space.
After leaving the room, he flicked the lock into place and went outside. He didn’t go far, just leaned over the railing near the garden.
“Do you want me to cook her something to feed her?” Jade asked.
He turned toward her. His hands shook.
“She is really getting to you, isn’t she?”
“She’s not supposed to exist.”
“She does exist. What’s all of this about?”
He hadn’t told Jade everything about his life. About Sarah. He didn’t know what the fuck any of this meant.
Running fingers through his hair, he knew he had to call his uncle and brothers. It was the only way to clear this mess up. He couldn’t make contact with Sarah’s parents. They were still grieving and with all the shit he’d caused, there was no way he could go to them, not now.
“Fuck!”
“Do you want me to feed her or not?” Jade asked.
“Go. Cook some food. I’ll feed her but we’re not letting her go. We’re going to have to move to another secure location.”
“She’s not going to cause us to get captured, is she?”
“Not if I can help it. You’ve got to learn to trust me.”
“You know I trust you, Landon. I just hope you know whatever the hell it is you’re doing.”
He didn’t know but he wasn’t about to tell her that. His life was already fucked up enough as it was. Tapping his foot, he tried to figure some shit out, but he was drawing a blank, again. This was a nightmare.
Bringing out his cell phone, he knew he needed to make the call, but he couldn’t make it inside the house. As he walked out the front door, he grabbed the baseball cap and then made his way thirty minutes away from his actual location to a small collection of shops that were mostly cafes and takeout places. He didn’t stand out in the crowd, and there were multiple people using cell phones.